#wants

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#die #how #indian #knew #live

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

#donner #exactly #few #him #hollywood

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#children #come #corny #course #different

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#acquire #animal #become #god #himself

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#about #certain #certain extent #certainly #come

If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it. ↗

— Michelle Wie

#burdened #feel #give #hard #i

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #only #other #tragedies #two

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in. ↗

— Steven Gerrard

#competition #everyone #league #wants

I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#could #federation #feel #god #got